Artful Lives

Author : Beth Gates Warren
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606060708
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artful Lives written by Beth Gates Warren and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This captivating biography reveals the previously untold love story of Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather. Both were photographic artists at the center of the bohemian cultural scene in Los Angeles during the 1910s and 1920s, yet Weston would become a major Modernist photographer while Mather, who Weston ultimately expunged from his journals, would fall into obscurity. The book reveals how they and their entourage sought out the limelight as the Hollywood film industry came of age. Based on ten years of research and illustrated with extraordinary images, some never published, this history has a captivating range of characters, including Charlie Chaplin, Imogen Cunningham, Max Eastman, Emma Goldman, Tina Modotti, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Carl Sandburg. The lively text brings to life the ambiance of this exciting time in Los Angeles history as well as its darker side. Artful Lives exceeds any previously published account of this key period in Weston's development and reveals Mather's important contribution to it, making it an essential reference in Weston studies.

Author : Danielle Donaldson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440340188
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book CreativeGIRL written by Danielle Donaldson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find your artistic creativity with delicate doodles, big colors and lavish layers! CreativeGIRL features art projects that teach you how to draw and paint your story using pencils, watercolor paints and simple mixed-media supplies. Danielle Donaldson shows you how to draw the pretty pictures from your imagination, infuse your art with delightful color combinations and work through creative frustration with simple fixes. You'll learn how to paint with watercolor, tell visual stories with and without words and add depth with layers using mixed-media techniques and little details--all while finding inspiration and gaining confidence in your own artistic style. Draw, paint, layer and create! • More than 30 techniques and projects including drawing, painting and adding layers for artists and aspiring artists of all levels. • Learn how do draw and paint figures such as creativeGIRL, busyGIRL and tutuGIRL. Then create your own girl to channel your story. • Find even more inspiration in a gallery filled with extraLOVE from the artist.

Author : Vitta Poplar
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0740709976
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leading the Artful Life written by Vitta Poplar and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The high-style abodes in this book are the artist's all-time favorites from her continuing quest to discover fresh and different designs and schemes. From new traditionalist styles to minimalist motifs, this work will inspire readers to establish an artful life at their own address.

Author : Ali Smith
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593687590
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artful written by Ali Smith and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ali Smith melds the tale and the essay into a magical hybrid form, a song of praise to the power of stories in our lives In February 2012, the novelist Ali Smith delivered the Weidenfeld lectures on European comparative literature at St. Anne’s College, Oxford. Her lectures took the shape of this set of discursive stories. Refusing to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form, Artful is narrated by a character who is haunted—literally—by a former lover, the writer of a series of lectures about art and literature. A hypnotic dialogue unfolds, a duet between and a meditation on art and storytelling, a book about love, grief, memory, and revitalization. Smith’s heady powers as a fiction writer harmonize with her keen perceptions as a reader and critic to form a living thing that reminds us that life and art are never separate. Artful is a book about the things art can do, the things art is full of, and the quicksilver nature of all artfulness. It glances off artists and writers from Michelangelo through Dickens, then all the way past postmodernity, exploring every form, from ancient cave painting to 1960s cinema musicals. This kaleidoscope opens up new, inventive, elastic insights—on the relation of aesthetic form to the human mind, the ways we build our minds from stories, the bridges art builds between us. Artful is a celebration of literature’s worth in and to the world and a meaningful contribution to that worth in itself. There has never been a book quite like it.

Author : Birgitta Hjalmarson
Publisher : Balcony Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artful Players written by Birgitta Hjalmarson and published by Balcony Press. This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birgitta Hjalmarson deftly brings these artists back to life, partly because their story is long overdue, partly because it is such a rollicking good one.

Author : Scott R. Stroud
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271056878
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Dewey and the Artful Life written by Scott R. Stroud and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aesthetic experience has had a long and contentious history in the Western intellectual tradition. Following Kant and Hegel, a human’s interaction with nature or art frequently has been conceptualized as separate from issues of practical activity or moral value. This book examines how art can be seen as a way of moral cultivation. Scott Stroud uses the thought of the American pragmatist John Dewey to argue that art and the aesthetic have a close connection to morality. Dewey gives us a way to reconceptualize our ideas of ends, means, and experience so as to locate the moral value of aesthetic experience in the experience of absorption itself, as well as in the experience of reflective attention evoked by an art object.

Author : Jean Van't Hul
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1611807204
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Artful Parent written by Jean Van't Hul and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bring out your child’s creativity and imagination with more than 60 artful activities in this completely revised and updated edition Art making is a wonderful way for young children to tap into their imagination, deepen their creativity, and explore new materials, all while strengthening their fine motor skills and developing self-confidence. The Artful Parent has all the tools and information you need to encourage creative activities for ages one to eight. From setting up a studio space in your home to finding the best art materials for children, this book gives you all the information you need to get started. You’ll learn how to: * Pick the best materials for your child’s age and learn to make your very own * Prepare art activities to ease children through transitions, engage the most energetic of kids, entertain small groups, and more * Encourage artful living through everyday activities * Foster a love of creativity in your family

Author : Dani Ives
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683355156
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Painting with Wool written by Dani Ives and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to needle felt and create stunning works of fiber art to wear, hang on the wall, and more with this guide and collection of sixteen projects. Painting with Wool is the introductory and must-have text for fiber artists and other crafters looking for a new and exciting art form to explore. Increasingly popular, Dani Ives’s style of needle felting uses wool fibers and a felting needle to layer and “paint” embellishments for pieces that are bursting with texture and depth. Whether you want to decorate a tote or garment, or create frameable artwork, Painting with Wool is the guide to everything you need to know—including the tools required, the basic techniques, and how to get started. For fiber lovers who want to broaden their skills, needle felting is an easy, therapeutic form of self-expression that offers beautiful, unique results. Ives is a pioneer in this art form and a skilled instructor who makes learning this craft fun and approachable for all.

Author : Annapurna Garimella
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781932476774
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Artful Life of R. Vijay written by Annapurna Garimella and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful, detailed and contemporary: a stunning introduction to the living tradition of Rajasthani miniature painting of Rakesh Vijay in collaboration with Waswo X. Waswo. This book is a beautiful testimony to the traditional skills of an amazing artist plucked from obscurity by a visionary photographer-poet whose commission has expiated his insecurity over his own presence in India while briging R. Vijay to the world.

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Publisher : Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781614285366
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art House written by and published by Classics. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading art collector Chara Schreyer's forty-year collaboration with interior designer Gary Hutton has produced five residences designed to house 600 works of art, including masterpieces by Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Donald Judd, Louise Nevelson, Diane Arbus, and Frank Stella. Art House takes readers on a breathtaking visual tour of these stunning spaces, which range from an architectural tour-de-force to a high-rise "gallery as home." An exploration of a life devoted to living with art and to designing homes that honor it, this title is an inspiration for art and design lovers alike.